---
title: "Accessibility Checker Rule Help: Rpt_Aria_MultipleContentinfoInSiblingSet_Implicit"
---
import "../../../styles/ToolHelp.scss"
import { CodeSnippet, Tag } from "carbon-components-react";

<div className="toolHelp">
<Row>
<Column colLg={16} colMd={8} colSm={4} className="toolHead">

### Multiple elements with `"contentinfo"` role found on a page

<div id="locLevel"></div>

A page, document or application should only have one element with the `"contentinfo"` role

</Column>
</Row>
<Row>
<Column colLg={11} colMd={5} colSm={4} className="toolMain">

### Why is this important?

There should be only one element with a role of `"contentinfo"` per page, document or application, to avoid any confusion about where to find footer information. An element with the `"contentinfo"` role is a landmark that identifies common footer information about its parent, such as copyrights, accessibility and privacy statements typically repeated at the bottom of each page. The HTML `<footer>` element has an implicit role of `"contentinfo"` when its context is a `<body>` element.

<div id="locSnippet"></div>

### What to do

* Remove the `"contentinfo"` role from all but the one element that represents the main footer information for the page, document, or application.

For example:

<CodeSnippet type="multi" light={true}>&lt;body&gt;
	&lt;div role="main"&gt;Main content...&lt;/div&gt;
	&lt;div role="search"&gt;Search widget&lt;/div&gt;
	&lt;div role="contentinfo"&gt;Copyright information...&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;</CodeSnippet>

</Column>
<Column colLg={5} colMd={3} colSm={4} className="toolLeft">

### About this requirement

[IBM 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks](https://www.ibm.com/able/requirements/requirements/#2_4_1)
[WAI-ARIA 1.1 Contentinfo Landmark](https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/examples/landmarks/contentinfo.html)

### Who does this affect?

* Blind people using screen readers

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</div>

export default ({ children, _frontmatter }) => (<React.Fragment>{children}</React.Fragment>)
